Is it Rare for Someone's Biogical Parents to Stay Together?

[giblets]

People with college degrees aren't exactly rare. Maybe you should admit you were wrong for once.

[Al B. Sure!]

People with college degrees aren't exactly rare. Maybe you should admit you were wrong for once.

We could do a poll about Masters or Doctorate degrees... you're dancing around my point that Apolyton represents a privileged demographic.

[giblets]

What do you want, statistics? You reject statistics that don't confirm what you already believe...

[Al B. Sure!]

Over 50% of first marriages end in divorce.

[Uncle Sparky]

My dad died when I was a teenager & my mom died a couple of years ago.

[giblets]

Over 50% of first marriages end in divorce.

To my knowledge, no.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-125.pdf

Scroll down to figures 3a and 3b. Then scroll down to 4a and 4b. Then look at 5.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You think Alby reads facts?

[Lorizael]

My parents are closing in on 40 years together. But yeah, I'm pretty privileged. My dad is a college dropout, my mom works a dead end job, and it was way cool wondering if the utilities would be on when I got home from school.

[Al B. Sure!]

You think Alby reads facts?

I read **** like this:

"Married adults now divorce two-and-a-half times as often as adults did 20 years ago and four times as often as they did 50 years ago... between 40% and 60% of new marriages will eventually end in divorce. The probability within... the first five years is 20%, and the probability of its ending within the first 10 years is 33%... Perhaps 25% of children ages 16 and under live with a stepparent." -Brian K. Williams, Stacy C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom, Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships, 2005

[Ming]

Perhaps 25% of children ages 16 and under live with a stepparent." -Brian K. Williams, Stacy C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom, Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships, 2005

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Only 25%. So thanks for proving yourself wrong. So the majority of children are NOT living with a stepparent.

[Al B. Sure!]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Only 25%. So thanks for proving yourself wrong. So the majority of children are NOT living with a stepparent.

Now add the 34% who live in single-parent homes!

http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?ind=107

Which was my entire point from the other thread that non-traditional families outnumber traditional.

Straight from gribbler quoting me in the OP of this thread:

It's rare to find anyone whose biological parents are married!

Yup, that includes single-parent homes, does it not?

[Al B. Sure!]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Ming. Wrong.

[Ming]

Only 25% are living with a step parent... so the majority of children are NOT living with a step parent... nothing wrong with what I posted.

You said RARE... and you have YET to PROVE it.

Have fun.

[Wezil]

Historical: My parents were together 42 years; they divorced long after their kids were grown and gone.

Ditto.

We all wondered why it took so long.

[Al B. Sure!]

Only 25% are living with a step parent... so the majority of children are NOT living with a step parent... nothing wrong with what I posted.

You made a strawman and crushed it with gusto. Good job, Ming. You go, boy.